In Year 6, the children are studying ‘Evolution and Inheritance’ in their Science work. This week, they have looked at characteristics that can be inherited from a parent and they have started to consider adaptive traits, which enable living things to survive and flourish in their habitat. They have
This week, Reception have continued to explore new zones of our EYFS outdoor area. They have enjoyed exploring moving water with our new hill water feature and water chutes. They have also been busy planting Spring flowers and camping in our forest area and looking for fairies and pixies in our
Over the last two weeks in science we have been investigating materials – including solids, liquids and gasses. This week – the ultimate test meant we got to see how chocolate and ice changed state when we applied heat. Of course that meant we had to try it, so the children got a chocolate coin an
In PE, Year Two are learning how to dance. Miss Bull’s class are learning a routine called #DanceReunite, and Miss Norman’s class are dancing to Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’. The children learnt that when we dance to a piece of music, we count in beats of eight. They practised counting the beats by
Never one to miss out on this lesson, back from isolation, Year 4A jumped straight into the challenge of creating an electrical circuit using a cell, bulb and wires. They were even given the buzzers to try too. Not only that – the children were so good we also added a switch and created buzzing,
In Science this term, year 4 have been learning all about electricity. The children explained that electricity is a type of energy that makes things work: making a light bulb light up, a kettle heat water, a fan spin and a radio play music. They identified the different devices that run on mains or
In Year 3, the children have been learning about rocks and fossils. They carried out their own investigation into igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and discussed the properties of each type of rock. They then moved on to learn about how fossils are formed and had a go at creating their own.
Taking our love of adjectives out into the woodland made for an exciting afternoon. Working in pairs, the children were given a collecting bag, a pencil and a sheet of adjectives. Their challenge match the descriptive words to plants or objects. If they found any additional objects that they could d
Year 2 went exploring for colours and textures in our Forest School. Working in pairs, the children were given a collecting bag, a pencil and a sheet of adjectives. Their challenge was to collect as many examples of objects, that matched the descriptive words, as they could. If they found any additi
The nursery children all arrived on adjective day dressed up and ready to head out into our Forest School. They were split into teams; Sneaky Spiders, Wiggly Worms and Lovely Ladybirds, each team had an adult who had a collecting bag and a list of adjectives. The adults gave the children an adjectiv
